INSTITUTE NEWS New President takes over at ‘virtual’ AGM
IHEEM’s 53rd AGM, held ‘virtually’ on the afternoon of 9 December, saw the Institute’s President for the previous two years, Ian Hinitt, hand over to his successor, Paul Fenton, who in his professional role is Director of Estates and Facilities at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The AGM saw the Minutes of the IHEEM 2019 AGM held in Manchester on 8 October 2019 unanimously approved. The Institute’s Annual Report and audited Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2019 were also approved. In the Election to Council section, CEO, Pete Sellars, confirmed that having served two terms, Eddie McLaughlin of the Scottish Branch, and Steven Lloyd of the Welsh Branch, had agreed to serve a further term, and had been duly re-elected. Meanwhile, retiring at the end of their second term were Phil Wade of the West Midlands Branch, and Alan Westbury from the London Branch, who would be replaced by Mark Williams and Paul Rodgers respectively. Pete Sellars explained that Ian Hinitt, IHEEM’s President since October 2018, would step down at the AGM’s conclusion, but had agreed to remain on Council for up to a further year, to lead in developing IHEEM’s Sustainability platform. All the nominations were approved. Pete Sellars then read the names of all the Council members for the next 12 months, including Paul Fenton, who would commence his two-year Presidency at the AGM’s conclusion. Ian Hinitt welcomed Mark Williams and Paul Rodgers to Council, and thanked Eddie McLaughlin and Steven Lloyd for agreeing to serve a further term. He added: “I’d also like to thank Alan and Phil for their invaluable contributions on Council, including supporting me personally throughout my Presidential term.” Next, Morris Crocker were re- appointed as IHEEM’s auditors for the 2020 Accounts.
NHS workers’ ‘exceptional efforts’ There being no ‘special business’, Ian Hinitt said he would like to thank all staff in the NHS, and all key workers, ‘in supporting the exceptional efforts in combating COVID-19’. He added: “I’d also like to thank our head office team, Council, and members, as I hand over to Paul Fenton as the incoming President.” Paul Fenton then gave a short address, beginning by thanking Ian Hinitt for all his help and support, and for ‘being an outstanding President over the past two years’. He also thanked Pete Sellars for the ‘fantastic leadership’ he had shown to IHEEM to date, but especially over the past 12 months through the COVID
Incoming: Paul Fenton.
pandemic, and acknowledged the head office team’s hard work. IHEEM was now, he said, ‘in a really strong position financially’, and had ‘increased its visibility ten-fold’, both nationally and internationally. He also paid tribute to the healthcare engineering and estate management professionals who had been ‘standing side by side’ with the doctors and nurses ‘at every hospital Trust and at every healthcare facility across the UK, and indeed globally, combating the coronavirus’.
Three key priority areas
Looking ahead, Paul Fenton said IHEEM would continue to deliver its Five Key themes – serving members, developing future leaders, engaging with new partner organisations, supporting existing such organisations, and strengthening its national and international profile, but as President he planned to focus on three key areas. The first was the continuing partnership with the Institute of Engineering Technology in sponsoring the IET’s Faraday Challenge, with allocated days from September 2021 to September 2022 to ‘take healthcare engineering through the STEM agenda into schools across the UK to encourage 12-13 year-olds to get interested in healthcare engineering, and to join the profession’.
His second key priority would be to look at healthcare planning and the
Focusing more on estate management
Thirdly, he would be looking for the Institute to support the ‘EM’ letters in IHEEM – the estate management arm, ‘especially around the built environment’, adding that he would welcome any interaction and suggestions from members on all three areas of activity. Looking forward to working with his Council colleagues in managing IHEEM’s future business objectives and strategy, Paul Fenton said he was ‘extremely honoured’ to be taking up the Presidency.
He concluded by thanking all attendees, said he looked forward to seeing many of them in the New Year, and wished all a Very Happy Christmas, and ‘a much better New Year’. With that, he declared the AGM closed.
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Outgoing: Ian Hinitt.
design of healthcare premises, and in particular at the development of technical guidance and standardisation of it, and what each country could learn from one another. He said: “I think we have witnessed in the past 10 months the the critical importance of shared learning in the fight against the pandemic. I believe IHEEM should be at the forefront, working with other institutes and associations, colleagues at NHSE/ NHSI, Company Affiliates, and partners worldwide, to develop international technical guidance documents together.”
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